bedew

Example Sentences

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“Do not speak so closely to another person with such enthusiasm that you bedew the other man with your spittle,” he said, from a safe distance.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2019

Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

It’s a little cooler today, but possibly rainier: Scattered showers may bedew us, with a high of 70.

From New York Times • May 6, 2015

Fair is the garden, Sauda, to thy view,          More fair appears Her dwelling; let me all its ways bedew          With happy tears.

From Hindustani Lyrics by Khan, Inayat

Alas! my heart breaks at the very thought, and my tears bedew the paper on which I am writing.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)